The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-02-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

IT 10 said that Buffalo Bill began life ~
aprinter's devil.
A PROMINENT undertaken at Reno, New,
II Conn G. Bier.
WASH the mica Of the stove doors with
salt and vinegar.
A CITIZEN of Pekin, H., rejoices in the
name Of Bloompot.
HONEY 10 much used for curing hams
now, instead of sugar.
Nh. WARREN, Of Boston, says that Adam
lived at the North Pole.
WAsHrSeroN's new $9,0OO, 600 hotel is to
be called the Windsor.
THREE-FoURTHs Of the Florida orange
crop has been marketed.
ARKANSAS raises voice in favor Of free
text books and against free passes.
AN artesian we'll at Waynesboro, Co.,
came on human bones 400 feet deep.
WOUNDED KNEE is the name of new
postoftice in Shannon County, Dakota.
A srAr1sTIoIAN claims there is one di.
vorce to every four and half marriages.
LoTTA, who upon the stage looks about
twenty years old, was forty the other day.
A FROZEN rabbit on the rail at Golden,
nl., upset Q handcar, breaking q mans
leg.
The number Of idiots in the United States
increased from 34,527 in 1870 to 1886 in
1850.
THE United Labor party has put q full
municipal ticket in the field at Philadel-
phia.
BUSINESS in Buenos Ayres is entirely
suspended owing to the prevalence Of
cholera.
Two citizens of Canova, D. T., ran foot
race through the snow the other night in
their bare feet.
The remains Of Gambetta will soon be
removed to Paris and placed in the vaults
Of the Pantheon.
THERE is an Indian reservation Of 1900
acres in North Carolina inh abited by about
5000 Cherokees.
In st. Louis the other afternoon more
than 10000 people turned out in q body to
hunt for ghost.
IT has been forty years since more than
one ballot has been required to elect q U. 8.
Senator in Indiana.
A New York society lady has been Of
fered 81 900 to sign her name to q patent
medicine Endorsement.
The merchants of Savannah, Ga, pro
pose adopting business hours extending
from 9 a. m. to 6p. m.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has been presented
with cane cut from tree which shaded
hlm at the time Of his surrender.
THE girls Of Peru, ILL.,, are said to have
formed toboggan club, the members Of
which slide down hill on barrel slaves.
A New YORK paper suggests that the
dudes Of that city be organized and sent to
Central Africa to the relief of Emin Bey.
THE new artesian well now being bored
at Charleston, 8. c., is over 100 feet deep
already, with o diameter Of twelve inches.
"BILL ARP" is delivering a series Of lee
lures in Mississippi for the benefit of the
Confederate monument at jackson, Miss.
TIE wife Of Senator Stanford, of Cali.
fornia, wore 100 worth OF diamonds
and jewels at the late Presidential recep.
tion.
TEE Rothsehilds, who now control all the
quicksilver mines in the world, are said tc
be intending extensive investments in gold
mines.
ANARCHIST SPIES says that Sheriff Mat
sons refusal to allow him to wed Miss
Van Zandt will ''upset every throne in
Europe"
FRANCE is buying large timber tracts in
Alsacs-Lorraine, apparently for the pur-
pose Of building wooden barracks along
the frontier.
THERE are rumors in London Of coming
divorce case in which the principal pc rites
win be the Princess Louise and the Mar
Quis Of Lorne.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT Is going into the
dairy business extensively on the farm in
Rhode Island which he recently bought
from August Belmont.
A MAN who imagined himself telephone,
and who has been trying for q year to
shout "Hellow in his own ear, was sent to
IN asylum at Flatbush, L. l.
THERE are at this time Il, 900 more manu-.
featuring establishments in the Southern
States than in 1880, representing cash in.
vestment Of over go, ,OOo, 900.
The highest spot inhabited by human be.
ings is said to be the Buddhist cloister Of
Hanie, Thibet, where twenty-one priests
live at an altitude Of $1,000 feet.
HENRY N. STANLEY has again started for
the "dark' continent As he is backed by
Q strong army, the chances are that he in
tends to chan e its color to red.
IT is stated that Italy has declared its
seventeen universities open to women
Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and Dem
mark have taken similar action.
A YOUNG woman Of Lynn was recently
poisoned by the arsenic washed on to her
face from two birds on her bonnet while
she was riding during rain storm.
The teeth of citizen of North Strahave,
Pa, are all double. He can crack a wal.
nut, bite two-penny nail in two or lift a
quarter Of beef with his teeth with ease.
A NAUGHTY editor says: "A new design
for the obelisk hats 10 to surmount them
with goose with outstretched wings,
Hitherto the goose has been under the
hntn
The value Of the leaf tobacco crop in the
United States has varied from $500, ,OO
to ~, 100000 per year during the past six
years. The heavy production Of the lower
grades Of tobacco leaf are discouraginR
further production because Of the low
prices realized.
TEE new State Department ct Washing.
ton has l5O rooms, and cost q, ,00O, 900. The
new War Department has l73 rooms,
and cost e,tW,0O. The building has AZ
windows.
TEE city Of Milan has at last decided to
erect the long-waiting monument in honor
OF Napoleon I'LL 1t was ready in 1879, but
tts erection has been delayed by factious
opposition.
JINAUscHEK, the actress, il 0 victim Of
~lS" superstition. During her recent On.
gagement at Indianapolis she refused n
occupy Q room having the mystic number